By Philip Tengzu
Wa, (UW/R), Nov. 23, GNA – The 1989-year group of the Wa Senior High School (WASEC) has renovated some infrastructure in the school to enhance teaching and learning as well as improve hygiene services in the school.
The intervention, valued over GHȻ56,000.00, involved the renovation of a classroom block and washrooms and the repainting of the school’s entrance.
Speaking at a brief ceremony at the school to commission the facilities, Mr Seidu Bomanjo, a member of the group, indicated that the initiative was a way of giving back to their alma mater due to the impact it has had in their lives.
He said the 1989-year group of the school had earlier donated sports equipment to the school to help promote sports activities in their alma mater.
“It was not an easy task, but we managed to pool together about GH¢56,274.00 and with the support of the school’s management, especially the headmaster, this project became a success.
We feel this is a way of giving back to our alma mater for making us what we are today,” Mr Bomanjo explained.
He appealed to other old students of the school to come on board to support their alma mater because the government alone could not meet the challenges the school was facing.
Mr Adams Iddrisu Thirdman, the Headmaster of WASEC, expressed gratitude to the 1989-year group and the general WASEC Old Students Association for their unrelenting support to the school.
He said their support interventions helped to give the school a facelift and enhance academic activities.
Mr Thirdman, however, said the current assembly hall was inadequate to contain all the students and appealed to the government through the Upper West Regional Director of Education, to provide the school with a befitting hall.
He said the school anticipated to have a total of 2,700 students if all the first years picked up their admission, a student population he said was unprecedented in the history of WASEC.
The headmaster said the school was also in dire need of an 18-unit classroom block, a befitting dining hall and 800-capacity boys’ and girls’ dormitories each to help bridge the school’s infrastructure deficit.
Mr Razak Abdul-Korah, the Upper West Regional Director of Education, acknowledged the unappalled performance of the Wa SHS among schools in the region in the Secondary Education Reform Programme.
He commended the school’s management and all individuals and groups that contributed in diverse ways to that success.
Mr Abdul-Korah announced that a total of 2,456 tablets had been received from the government awaiting installation of the necessary curriculums and onward distribution to the learners to enhance academic activities.
GNA